Prairie Arts Center
North Platte, Neb. - The Prairie Arts Center received a $10,000 grant from the Robert E and Patricia A Schmidt Foundation today in North Platte. The grant dollars will help PAC support art classes and community art projects within the community. Every year the Prairie Arts Center focuses on various classes for kids and adults in a variety of mediums.
These classes offer so many benefits to the community, whether it's to gather as a community and create, provides stress reduction and relaxation, enhances motor skills and development for children and improves quality of life in communities.
Holly Carlini, Executive Director of the Prairie Arts Center says, "The Schmidt Foundations commitment to the arts in communities across the country is outstanding. Their funds help so many communities and art programs for non-profits like ours thrive. They help us to provide essential classes, lessons and spaces for all people to create. It's the arts that can bring people together in a positive way. The Schmidt Foundation and Eagle Communications continue to support arts programs building brighter futures for communities in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska."
The Schmidt Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in communities. Bob Schmidt is the founder of Eagle Communications and his wife Pat Schmidt both greatly cared about giving back into the community. The Schmidt Foundation has given back to communities in many ways in project donations, non-profit organizations, scholarships and so much more.